Customer Reviews

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones

5 star:		(29)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is a wonderful collection of urban legends and reworkings of regional ghost stories. The stand out of the collection is the story of "Harold." Even though this book is mostly for older kids, "Harold" will definitely leave even adults unnerved.You won't be able to look at a scarecrow without being spooked for weeks after reading the story. This book offers scary stories that aren't gross and don't have some sort of underlying agenda. It's just plain fun.

I have always been fascinated with all of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories collection, ever since I was a child. Stephen Gammell's drawings are really creepy. I purchased these books to hopefully share with my students. BEWARE though, some young children become frightened with some of the drawings! For ages 9 and up!

This book terrified me as a kid and it still does now at age 20. The scariest story is about "Harold" a giant doll that comes to life and kills somebody. It would make a great horror movie. The story about the girl raised by wolves is even cooler now because of a real life case I learned about in my Sociology class of a boy being found in the wilderness that is something like it. All in all this is an awesome book that still scares me and my friends today.

Be careful . . . Alvin Schwartz's last book in his trilogy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark may be his most frightening yet. From a scarecrow that comes to life to a dog that's more than a little odd, Schwartz's book will make sure that you get a good shiver down your spine and perhaps a few hours less sleep.

Scary Stories More Tales To Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Well, by the title you can probably tell what the book is about. This book is about scary stories.
There is an very interesting part of this book it is called Hello Kate! It is about a ghost named Kate. She had died last year. Tom Conners was going to a dance. He was walking through the woods when he heard a strange sound. When he turned around he saw Kate. Then all of a sudden he remembered Kate was dead. He turned back around again but faster this time and didn't see her.
People who would like this book best would be teenagers,people that are older, and older children. Little children who don't like scary stories would defiantly not like this book.
I would give this book 10 out of 10 stars because it is a very scary book. This is a good but scary book.

This book tells tales. Some don't chill your bones like a cold cat. This story starts out when a girl takes a walk in the woods. She met a girl. And the girl tells what people are scared of. Then theres other tales. One tale I think its scary its Him! Its about a bad women who is so crazy that she cuts her husbens head off!. The hog is werid its about a hog that squeiks in a high voise. another is just diloushous its about a bully and a girl and liver.This is a great book for a person who likes scary stuff.

I think this is one of the best book that Alvin Schwartz has ever written. I really enjoyed his last two books so I decided to read this book and I was not disapointed. I really liked the short story form for the book because it left me wondering what would happen next. Some of the stories are some what alike. But all of them were still fun to read. I really enjoyed all the stories because they were really funny. I would recommend this book to everyone. I would especially recommend this book to people who has read the other books by Alvin Schwartz.

The title of this book is Scary Stories 3 To Tell In The Dark. By Alvin Schwartz. The book is about many scary stories put together into one. The stories scared me and they will scare you too!
The reason I like this book is because I love to scare my brother and sister. I also love the excitement in this book. That is why this is a good book for you to read.

The last in a great trilogy of books that bring folk tales, legends, and spook stories to vivid life. A fine end to a great series. I wish Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell would collaborate on more of these collections. Again, the perfect blend of Schwartz's retelling of tales and Gammell's haunting illustrations, Scary Stories 3 will keep anyone who reads it, young or old, up all night! A great way to torment a younger sibling (just allow the younger brother or sister to read this before bedtime!). The spookiest illustrations in this volume accompany the stories "Like Cat's Eyes", "The Dead Hand", "The Wolf Girl", and "The Dream" (this one gave me nightmares for weeks!). A great and scary addition to any home library.

While it hardly needs to be said that Stephen Gammell's oft-lauded illustrations are absolutely, fantastically, wonderfully frightening, the actual *stories* in this series have never struck me as particularly scary. That said, however, the story "Harold" which appears in this volume is by far the scariest in the series and is, indeed, one of the creepiest tales I've ever read (and I can be quite difficult to scare!).

"Harold" alone is worth the price of this book--it's a very odd little gem which I'm surprised ended up here amongst the other not-particularly-scary stories typical of the series. (Incidentally, the illustrations in this volume are, perhaps, not *quite* as creepy as in the previous two--a response to parents' complaints, perhaps? If my conjecure is true, it makes "Harold"'s appearance all the more inexplicable.) Read and enjoy (and be scared)! :)